Catherine Robbins Lyman
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Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Catherine Robbins Lyman canonical | 4 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T511506 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Robbins Lyman Context triple: [Sara Ann Delano, mother, Catherine Robbins Lyman]
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A.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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B.
Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards was an American author of children’s literature and biographies, known for works such as her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
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C.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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D.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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E.
Fredricka G. Ross
Fredricka G. Ross is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Alicia Keys’ hit ballad “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down.”
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Catherine Robbins Lyman Target entity description: Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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A.
Amabel James
Amabel James is known as the spouse of British businessman and hedge fund manager Tony James.
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B.
Laura E. Richards
Laura E. Richards was an American author of children’s literature and biographies, known for works such as her Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of her mother, Julia Ward Howe.
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C.
Emma T. Townsend
Emma T. Townsend was the wife of prominent American steel industry magnate and U.S. Steel co-founder Elbert H. Gary.
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D.
Ellen Ewing Sherman
Ellen Ewing Sherman was a 19th-century American Catholic socialite and philanthropist, best known as the politically connected wife of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman and the foster daughter of influential politician Thomas Ewing.
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E.
Fredricka G. Ross
Fredricka G. Ross is a songwriter best known for co-writing the lyrics to Alicia Keys’ hit ballad “Empire State of Mind (Part II) Broken Down.”
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (13)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American
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President of the United States ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ human ⓘ woman ⓘ |
| hasEthnicBackground | New England ⓘ |
| hasMaternalAncestor | Catherine Robbins Lyman self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| hasNotabilityReason |
maternal ancestor of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt
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mother of Sara Ann Delano ⓘ |
| isChildOf | Catherine Robbins Lyman self-linksurface differs ⓘ |
| isMaternalAncestorOf |
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
ⓘ
surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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| isMotherOf | Sara Ann Delano ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Catherine Robbins Lyman Description of subject: Catherine Robbins Lyman was an American woman of New England background best known as the mother of Sara Ann Delano and thus a maternal ancestor of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject surface form:
Sara Ann Delano
subject surface form:
Franklin D. Roosevelt